Choose a pop-up book from your curriculum or select a personal favorite that you feel is relevant to the grade and reading level of your students. Read the pop-up book to the class, showing each three-dimensional page as you go.
Demonstrate the process of making a pop-up book in front of the class. Show how attaching folded flaps of paper with pictures to the pages allows the pictures to jump out at the reader. For example, a simple fold for students to create is an accordion fold, where the folds go back and forth in a zigzag shape. Students simply cut out their pictures, glue the backs of the pictures to one end of the accordion fold, and glue the other end of the accordion folded flap to a sheet of paper. Pictures jump out, once the reader turns the pages.
Ask students to create their own pop-up pages about a book without pop-up pages that they previously read in class. Ask students to make different pop-up page representing the setting, conflict, plot and characters of that particular book. Allow the children to be as creative and expressive as they like.
Ask children to present their pop up pages to the class. Allow them to explain their ideas and ask and answer questions.